Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 16. 1963
60th Year, No. 72
FLOWERS IN JANUARY-A greenhouse employee sprays water on geraniums in preparation for spring commencement while outside the weather is far from conducive to flower growth.
Graduation Reminders Come Up Under Wraps
By Steve Clark
Quietly, imperceptibly, preparations are being made in the strangest places for the spring KU commencement, still more than four months off.
Seniors looking forward to that Hallelujuh Day as they trudge in sub-freezing temperatures over ice-crusted streets should take a brighter view of things when they learn what's happening at the University greenhouse.
THERE, LINED up with regimental precision the length of the houses and bombarded by waves of warm, humid air, are 8,000 snap-dragons and 1,200 geraniums, all destined to burst forth for commencement activities.
Constant care is being given the tender plants, about 12 weeks along in their five month route to maturity.
Sometime around the middle of May, the snapdragons will be cut-tied in bouquets and placed in cold storage — a weird twist of fate. The pots of geraniums will be wrapped in silver foil and carted to the field house.
Shortly thereafter, the process will start all over again with chrysanthemums. A hundred or so of these will be grown for fall decorations.
THREE MEN presently providing the tender care for the snapdragons and geraniums say its a never-ending process. All flowers used by the university are grown in the greenhouses. None are distributed off the Hill.
Another greenhouse in the compound just west of the maintenance buildings behind Flint Hall contains more than 1,500 different plants ranging from small ferns to a banana tree.
This unit, called the tropical greenhouse, even has an inhabitant, a tiny redbird that took a shortcut south by flying through an air vent. There are also a few goldfish to round out the effect.
Attendants say anyone can visit the tropical greenhouse. Art and botany students often do. It's not really like the campus during spring commencement week. But then, neither is the campus during mid- semester final week.
Five of Six Common Market Members Back Britain's Bid
ERUSSELS - (UPI) - Britain, picking up support for its membership bid against French opposition, made another conciliation offer to the Common Market states today on tariff concessions.
Informed sources said the negotiations on Britain's application to join the Common Market had relaxed considerably from the tension caused by French President Charles de Gaulle's rejection of the British position.
Informed sources said Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, offered to exchange concessions on tariffs at this morning's closed meeting. The concessions would apply to Commonwealth products.
The split was centered on the feeling that Europe will survive De Gaulle.
Britain gained backing from the other five members. There were definite signs of cracks in the front which the French have managed to maintain so far in the 15-month negotiations on Britain's bid.
In The Hague, official sources said the Netherlands and Belgium had agreed to oppose De Gaulle's efforts to block Britain's entry into the European community. They described De Gaulle's attitude as outmoded nationalism.
The Hague sources indicated the two countries might be compelled to reappraise their position in the Common Market if Britain is blocked from membership.
Yesterday Heath was reported to have offered concessions on agricultural prices.
The negotiators agreed to table the tariff problem and defer it until later if it meant a question of Britain joining the Common Market.
Negotiators from the six countries and Britain continued talks on tariff specifications despite French opposition.
Representatives of West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Italy expressed support for Great Britain's position. Luxembourg is believed to take the same view against De Gaulle's stand.
Pressure Ease on Berlin Seen in K's Party Talk
US Reaction Cautious
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—U.S. officials today assessed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's East Berlin speech as a major effort to convince the communist parties of the world of the wisdom of his policy of "peaceful coexistence" as opposed to Red China's demand for more warlike strategy against the West.
The Soviet leader's address before East German Communist Party Congress appeared to officials here to be designed to convince the audience of the folly of irresponsible and warlike actions in the face of the admittedly massive nuclear power of the United States.
OFFICIALS noted that Khrushchev left the Berlin issue about where it was, with no visible increase in pressure for a solution on his terms.
His renewed demand for a settlement of the German problem involving replacement of Allied troops by U.N. forces was again described here as unacceptable to the United States.
It was noted that Khrushchev's overall approach to the international situation indicated that he wants a period of peace in which to consolidate his position and try to handle the growing ideological split with Peking.
IN THIS CONNECTION, officials underlined Khrushchev's declaration that his policy of peaceful coexistence had gained him time to build nuclear power. This policy today has even greater "significance," they said.
This "actual situation" undoubtedly referred to the growing U.S. strength and evidence of President Kennedy's courage and determination which forced the Soviet leader to pull his offensive missiles and jet bombers out of Cuba.
Religion School Is Not Sunday School
KU religion courses are fully accredited courses—not rehashes of Sunday school lessons, the Dean of the Kansas School of Religion said today.
"The purpose of the school is to inform students in an atmosphere of free inquiry rather than to evangelize," Dean William J. Moore said, expressing concern about decreasing enrollments in the school.
Even though the School of Religion is not supported by state tax money and has its own separate policy-making board, the courses are fully accredited. They are, in fact, KU courses, for the Kansas School of Religion functions like a department of religion in the College of Liberal Arts, Dean Moore said.
"AS DEAN of this school, I can decide to teach any course under the sun, but I'm not going to do it. Only after a course has been accepted by the University will we teach it," he said.
"The teachers try to present religion in its full vigor, but they teach religion by the same standards of scholarship that prevail in the other disciplines of the University, such as history, philosophy and economics," Dean Moore said.
He said the school has a non-sectarian approach to the teaching of its courses, but this does not mean they are the lowest common denominator of many faiths and, therefore, insipid, he added.
"OUR COURSES are in an awkward spot, because all of them are elective," Dean Moore said. "We have no required religion courses as a substantial basis upon which electives may be built. Our disadvantage is not crippling, but we must inform
Teachers in the School of Religion must have had three years of graduate study in religion. Their appointments must be approved by Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe; George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and the Kansas School of Religion Board.
the students as to what we offer."
The religion courses offered next semester are:
Life and Teachings of Jesus—a historical inquiry distinguishing between the facts of Christianity and the meanings they bore for the early Christians. (Course 51 is upper-class equivalent.)
Religion—an introduction surveying the total religious field, with emphasis on Hebrew-Christian tradition and its expressions in modern thought.
Old Testament Literature—a critical introduction to each Old Testament book: its origin, contents and relevance to history of thought.
New Testament Literature—a critical introduction to each book, seen as a literary product of the early Christian movement.
History of the Hebrews I—From nomadic origins to 70 A.D.
Christian Ethics—Jesus' teachings as they apply to the family, church, industry and other phases of modern society.
History of the World's Living Religions—Origins, development and leading ideas of the world's important religions today.
Weather
Light snow is predicted to begin this afternoon and tonight in the extreme north Kansas. The snow is expected to increase and spread over the central portion of the state tomorrow. The low tonight will be 5 to 10 above in the northern part of Kansas. The high to-morrow will be in the 28s in the north and near 50 in the south.
BERLIN — (UPI)—Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev eased pressure on the West today for a German peace treaty and evacuation of Berlin.
At the same time he indirectly denounced the warlike theories of Red China.
BUT HE REFRAINED from any new ultimatum or deadline to the West.
In a two-hour, 35-minute address to the East German Communist Party Congress in East Berlin, the Soviet leader warned there can be no East-West disarmament agreement until the Berlin and German issues are settled.
Khrushchev added a grim note when he said the United States "now has roughly 40,000 hydrogen bombs and warheads." He said the Soviet Union also "has more than enough of this stuff."
But he said the Soviet Union has the biggest bomb of all — a 100-megaton nuclear bomb — and implied it would be used on the United States only if necessary.
"Such a bomb should not be used in Europe," he said. "Such measures could only be used outside Western Europe."
HE CALLED for a peaceful solution to East-West problems, saying "we do not want a kingdom in Heaven — we want a beautiful empire on earth."
Khrushchev reviewed at length the economic progress made by Soviet Russia and said it already is pressing the United States hard in this field. He when said the Boishevists took power, Russia was economically far behind other European countries and the United States.
KHRUSHCHEV CLEARLY disappointed his East German audience by his treatment of the West Berlin problem and by the fact he obviously has put it on ice for the time being. He paid lip service to the idea of a German peace treaty but made it clear he would take no steps against the Western position.
"Today the Soviet Union is a socialist great power that has long overtaken the other European countries in the level of its industrial production and is already treading on the heels of such a mighty capitalist country as the United States," he said.
Khrushchev repeated earlier "offers" to conclude a peace treaty with both German states, to turn isolated West Berlin into a free city and to allow foreign troops to remain there for a while, provided they are under United Nations command and not that of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NAATO).
But he made no new demands or proposals. The lack of these appeared to indicate he has decided to let the Berlin issue lie dormant for a while and that he has no intention of provoking a new Berlin crisis in the near future.
Khrushchev made these other main points:
- Russia withdrew her missiles from Cuba in order to save the world from threatened thermonuclear war. But the missiles can be used elsewhere.
- In the first hour of a thermonuclear conflict West Germany would go up in flames.
- The "misuse" of West Berlin by the West is increasing international tension.
- The policy of peaceful coexistence is even more urgent today than when it was first announced.
Red Chinese delegate Wu Hsiunchan listened stony faced throughout Khrushchev's speech. He did not applaud once.